Re: Easily-Read C++?

[a311581@ventures.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Kevin Cline)]

In article <EMERY.94Oct12165432@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
|> The ambiguity 'inherent' in declarations such as
|> 	char * foo;
|> 	char ** foo;
|> 	char foo[];
|> 	char *foo[];
|> causes problems for C tools.  Even though each of the above is
|> 'unambiguous', common usage means that any of these can be used to
|> represent the others.   At least one tool I know of (an RPC generator
|> for C) requires the user to disambiguate some of the above
|> declarations, to make sure that the tool generates the right code.
|> 
These declarations are not equivalent.  The first is equivalent to the third,
and the second to the fourth.

The equivalence of C pointers and arrays is unfortunate.  It is maintained
by C++ for backward compatibility reasons.  Most C++ applications use
a library template array class instead of C arrays.

Kevin Cline